[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.